This really is the only difference between brewings carried on in large public brewhouses, and those made in small private places, in other respects constructed upon the same plan, and with an equal care. Prejudice has propagated an idea, that where the grists are large, and the utensils in proportion, stronger extracts could be forced from the malt, in proportion to the quantity, and that more delicate beers could be made in smaller vessels less frequently used. These assertions, from what has been said, will, I hope, need no farther enquiry: the degrees of heat for the extracts are fixed for every intent, and it cannot be advantageous, by any means, to deviate from them. Brewings will most probably succeed in all places, where the grist is not so large as to exceed the bounds of man’s labour, and not so small as to prevent the heat from being uniformly maintained. The disadvantages are great on all sides, when a due proportion is not observed between the utensils and the works carried on.
It will now be proper to continue the delineation of our two brewings, and to put all the circumstances relating to them under one point of view.
A brewing for porter or brown strong beer, computed for 40 degrees of heat in the air.
11 quarters of malt, dried to 130 degrees, 132 pounds of hops for 27 barrels 1/2, to go out at 3 worts, 31 Inches above brass.
| Volume of grist | 6,32 | ||
| Water for first mash | 16,00 | ||
| —— | |||
| 22,32 | |||
| 6,32 | Volume of grist | 6 | effervescing degrees. |
| 3 | 3 | degrees for hard corns. | |
| —— | —— | ||
| 18,96 | 9 | degrees equal to 2 inches 1/4 less cooling in for the first mash, (see page 152.) | |
| 7 | Effervescence, per table. | ||
| —— | |||
| 22,32) 132,72 | (6 degrees of heat gained in the first mash by effervescence. | ||
| 13392 | |||
| Mashes | 1st | 2d | 3d | 4th | 5th | ||
| Deg. of heat, | 157° | 158° | 162° | 164° | 165° | See p. 280. | |
| Barrels of water used, | 16 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 9 | See p. 284. | |
| Quantity ooled in by calculation, | 3/4 | 2 | 2½ | 2 | 2 | See p. 284. | |
| Boiling water by calculation; | —— | —— | —— | —— | —— | ||
| barrels, | 15¼ | 6 | 9½ | 7 | 7 | ||
| Allowances for incidents, | } | [32]G. C. | L. C. | L. C. | L. C. | ||
| [33]Less 2 inches 1/4. | more 2 in.[34] | more 3 in.[34] | more 2 in.[34] |
A brewing for common small beer, computed for 60 degrees of heat in the air.
6 quarters of malt dried to 130 degrees; 36 pounds of hops;